Suzan-Lori Parks and Lucas Hnath Win Windham-Campbell Prize
Each will receive $165,000.
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Each will receive $165,000.
The LGBTQ awards’ drama category also includes ‘Composure,’ ‘Everybody’s Talking About Jamie,’ ‘The Gulf,’ and ‘How Black Mothers Say I Love You.’
The list comprises works by Juliany Taveras, Geogina Escobar, Briandaniel Oglesby, Elaine Avila, Darrel Alejandro Holnes, Benjamin Benne, Caridad Svich, and Noah Diaz.
Kennedy will receive a cash prize and the opportunity to design at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center.
Dance-focused designers Holly Hynes, Zach Brown, Travis Halsey, and Fritz Masten will be lauded this spring.
The August Wilson American Century Cycle Award celebrates theatres who have staged all 10 plays.
Akhtar will receive a cash prize of $100,000 for his play about junk bond tycoons of the 1980s.
Her play ‘Welcome to Matteson!’ will be developed at Chicago’s American Blues Theater.
Colette Robert and ensemble company Little Lord are among the artists who will be given money and space to develop new work.
The recipients are Jay Adana, Andrew R. Butler and Andrew Farmer, Emily Kaczmarek and Zoe Sarnak, and Mark Sonnenblick.